Julia Farley

Julia Farley
FSA
Academic work
Discipline
  • Archaeology
Sub-discipline
Iron Age archaeology
Roman archaeology
Institutions
  • University of Leicester
  • British Museum

Julia Farley is a British archaeologist specialising in Iron Age and Roman metalwork. She is the Curator of the European Iron Age & Roman Conquest Period collections at the British Museum.

Career

Farley studied archaeology and anthropology at the University of Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 2007. She then studied archaeology at Cardiff University, graduating with a Master of Arts (MA) in 2008. She undertook postgraduate research at the University of Leicester, completing her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 2012 with a thesis titled "At the Edge of Empire: Iron Age and early Roman metalwork in the East Midlands".

Following her PhD, she worked at the British Museum for a year as curator of European Iron Age collections before returning to the University of Leicester in 2013 for a three-year Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship. She returned to the British Museum in 2016. She has contributed an article to The Conversation news outlet on metal detecting.

Farley was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 12 December 2016.

Select publications

References

  1. ↑ "Britain, Prehistory & Europe: Staff". British Museum. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Julia Farley". The Conversation. 12 June 2014. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
  3. ↑ Farley, J. (2012). At the Edge of Empire: Iron Age and early Roman metalwork in the East Midlands (Thesis). University of Leicester.
  4. ↑ "Julia Farley". Society of Antiquaries of London. Retrieved 1 May 2020.[permanent dead link]